ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The House of Representatives has described the use of waiver in recruitment exercises in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA) of Government, as an abuse of recruitment processes where nepotism and favouritism takes centre stage, hence, vowed to abolish it
The was stated by Yusuf Gagdi, chairman, Ad hoc Committee on Job Racketeering, and Mismanagement of IPPIS, when the Registrar of National Post Graduate Medical College (NPGMC) appeared before it in Abuja on Monday.
Fatiu Arogundade, said that granting a waiver in recruitment exercises by any MDAs is not for the good of the country. He added that waiver had been severely abused by various MDAs..
Arogundade noted also that any recruitment that would not follow due process by advertising such on the pages of national dailies would no longer be tolerated.
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According to him, we will abolish the use of waivers, it is not for the good of this country, when they give you waiver it is subject to abuse.
He said Chief Executive Officers, directors among others have abused the use of waiver by employ cronies, families and those in their good book.
He explained that recruitment in MDAs should henceforth be advertised, adding that any recruitment without advertising the same is unjustifiable.
Arogundade further called on MDAs to respect federal character in carrying out recruitment exercises to enable participation across board and to encourage fairness, justice and equity.
He described the action of NPGMC as unjustifiable by engaging in selective recruitment Iām part of the country without considering others.
āYour action is unjustifiable, you have not respected the federal character. Your nominal roll keeps increasing while staff keep retiring.
āOn your recruitment list you have Borno, Yobe, Plateau that are not represented in your organisation.
āIn your recruited in 2021, you did not know that Sokoto, Borno, Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi among others have zero”, he said.